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I'm a bit too tired to write a full review of Usenix LISA 2017, so let me just say that the content was excellent and the audience was the most diverse that I've seen at a mainstream sysadmin conference.

The best part about the content? If I could sum it up in one word, it would be "new". Tons of new stuff, new technology, new ideas, and new techniques. (Ironically the one training session I taught was my not-new Time Management class, but the room was packed with new attendees.)

Best meta-issue? Usenix switched to the "Sched App" which was awesome. It made a big difference having an excellent app for the schedule. I always knew where I wanted to be. When a conference has multiple tracks, a good app becomes critical.

Congrats to co-chairs Connie-Lynne Villani (Fastly.com) and Caskey Dickson (Microsoft) for putting together an awesome conference and thanks to all the staff, committee, and volunteers that made it happen!

LISA 18 will take place October 28-November 2, 2018, at the Omni Nashville in Nashville, TN. I've already marked it in my calendar. You should too!

Our next guest will be Russell Pavlicek. We'll be discussing his talk from LISA '15 titled Unleashing the Power of the Unikernel.

Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. PT.
Particpate in the live Q&A by submitting your questions during the broadcast.
Pre-registration is recommended but not required. Register and/or watch via
this link.

Our next guest will be kc claffy. We'll be discussing her talk from LISA '15 titled Named Data Networking.

Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Particpate in the live Q&A by submitting your questions during the broadcast.
Pre-registration is recommended but not required. Register and/or watch via
this link.

This weekend is a good time to watch the video we'll be discussing
on the next episode of LISA conversations:
Caskey Dickson's talk from LISA '15 titled Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It.

Then you'll be prepared when we record the episode on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific Time (convert). Register (optional) and watch via this link. Watching live makes it possible to participate in the Q&A.

Our next guest will be Caskey Dickson. We'll be discussing his talk from LISA '15 titled Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It.

Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Particpate in the live Q&A by submitting your questions during the broadcast.
Pre-registration is recommended. Register and/or watch via
this link.

Our next conversation will be with Kris Buytaert, who presented "DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)" at LISA '11. Watch his talk beforehand, and then join us at 11:30 am PST/2:30 pm EST on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, at the Google Hangout On Air.

Watch his talk from LISA '15: DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)

In this episode we talked with Alice Goldfuss about the changes you need to make when growing a DevOps or sysadmin team. Alice also talked about dealing with remote workers, her experience at film school, plus she shares insights about giving your first presentation at a conference.

The next episode of the LISA Conversations video podcast will be a discussion with Sabrina Farmer. We'll be discussing her amazing talk "Overcoming My Biggest Roadblock, Myself" from the 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit (WiAC '12).

Watch her talk beforehand, and then join us at 3:30 pm PDT/6:30 pm EDT on Tuesday, October 27, 2015, at the Google Hangout On Air.

Next week's "LISA Conversations" podcast will be a discussion about the LISA '14 talk "Making Push on Green a Reality". We'll be interviewing the presenter, Daniel V. Klein, about the talk and what he has to say about it nearly a year later.

"Push On Green" means automatically pushing code to production with no human gates. If all the tests pass, the new code is pushed to production automatically. This enables Google to push code more frequently and with higher confidence than (for example) monthly or weekly code pushes.

Watch the video from LISA '14 and get ready to watch us record the podcast live on September 29, 2015, at 3:30pm PDT. We take questions live during the session. If you can't tune in live, the video will be available shortly after.

Ben Rockwood was the guest of Episode 2. He gave a great talk at LISA'14 and we invited him to discuss it, the reaction it got, and what's new in his thinking since. Ben's a funny guy and had a lot of insightful new things to say.

I wasn't able to attend, so Lee Damon cohosted with a great substitute David N. Blank-Edelman. I'll be back next month when Dan Klein will be our guest.

Yes, I've started a video podcast that has a homework assignment built-in. Watch a famous talk from a past LISA conference (that's the homework) then watch Tom and Lee interview the speaker. What's new since the talk? Were their predictions validated? Come find out!

Watch it live or catch the recorded version later.

The first episode will be recorded live Tuesday July 28, 2015 at 1:30pm PDT. This month's guest will be Todd Underwood who will discuss his talk from LISA '13 titled, Post-Ops: A Non-Surgical tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability

The first one is July 28, 2015 at 1:30pm PDT. We'll be interviewing Todd Underwood about his LISA 2013 talk Post-Ops, A Non-Surgical tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability. Watch the presentation head of time then join the the Google Hangout On Air.